Abstract
This chapter addresses positive images of the Ukrainian struggle for independence (as well as the 1648 uprising) as depicted in the writings of several Jewish radical Zionists at the beginning of the 20th century. This image found its way to Palestine and had considerable influence on the emerging Israeli popular culture. The Cossack warrior served as a model for the “regeneration” of a “New Jew”, claimed by members of Labor Zionism in Palestine. The Eastern European “other” – the horrifying enemy of the shtetl Jew, had transformed in the minds of some of the “second Aliya” pioneers (1904-1918) who settled in Palestine to an ideal example of heroism, simple rural life and unlimited national-commitment. Furthermore, they tended to apply some of the supposedly Cossack traits to the Middle-Eastern Bedouin.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Stories of Khmelnytsky |
| Subtitle of host publication | Competing literary legacies of the 1648 Ukrainian Cossack uprising |
| Editors | Amelia M. Glaser |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| Chapter | 8 |
| Pages | 139-152 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Volume | Stanford, CA |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780804793827 |
| State | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Labor Zionism
- Second Aliya
- Cossacks
- Hashomer
RAMBI Publications
- Rambi Publications
- Kaplansky, Shelomo -- 1884-1950
- ha-Shomer (Organization)
- Zionism -- History -- 1897-1948
- Zaporozhians in literature
- Hanukkah -- Israel